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>> pelley: tonight, assassination in texas. hit men kill a prosecutor who investigated organized crime and drug dealers. ana werner has the story. david martin on the breakthrough technology that could help iran build a nuclear weapon quickly. with mental illness and violence on the national agenda, dr. jon lapook visits with a mother and son struggling with schizophrenia. >> could tell by the look on his face that he did not know who i was. and i had to say, "it's your mom." >> pelley: and an american treasure begins its second hundred years, thanks to a first lady. >> i think we all realize how important it is to save these great and beautiful buildings. captioning sponsored by cbs
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this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. veteran prosecutor mark hasse was on his way to work this morning. he parked where he usually did for a short walk to the courthouse in kaufman county, just southeast of dallas. witnesses say that masked men intercepted hasse and shot him to death. the motive is unknown but investigators are looking at hasse's cases which have included drug dealers and organized crime. murders of prosecutors in this country are extremely rare, so we sent ana werner to learn more. >> kaufman county assistant district attorney mark hasse was shot multiple times in the parking lot a block from the courthouse. police are looking for one or possibly two suspects witnesses say were dresse dressed in black. police say there was a very short confrontation between gunmen and haas just before the attack. county judge bruce wood. >> just an outstanding person individually, but he was also just a very well-known and very
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well-respected prosecutor for the district attorney's office. this is just a horrible situation, horrible tragedy. >> reporter: the 57-year-old hasse had been a prosecutor in the county d.a.'s office for three years. he was earlier a prosecutor in dallas, where he worke worked on mob cases. investigators do not have a motive, but they described the shooting as a targeted attack. >> certainly we have the police, frontline people on the streets, but whenever it goes to murdering a prosecutor like this, that-- that takes it to the next level. >> reporter: kaufman county district attorney mike mcclellan says hasse prosecuted hundreds of cases. what's the part about this that hurts the most? >> the fact that i can't reach out and grab somebody and do something about it right now. because i want them really bad. >> reporter: we called the national district attorney's series, soas to ask how rare it is for a prosecutor to be
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murdered in the united states. scott, they knew of only seven examples between 1967 and 2004. >> pelley: and there's a $20,000 reward for information tonight. anna, thank you very much. in chicago, mayor rahm emanuel has ordered a flood of cops into the city's most violent neighborhoods today. there have been seven shootings since last night, but it was the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl just a mile from president obama's chicago home that prompted this crackdown, and dean reynolds has more. >> hadiya pendleton was shot in the back on tuesday as she and some friends gathered at this park on the way home from high school. targeted, police said, by a gunman who likely thought they were rival gang members tress patting on his turf. damon stewart is i had dia's godfather and chicago policeman. >> one individual walks in, and somebody does a shooting. nothing you can do about it.
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>> reporter: but the plan announced today to shift 200 police officers from desk job to constitute duty is one initiative designed to saturate gang-infested neighborhoods with law enforcement. >> as we grieve for hadiya, we need to work together to protect our greatest resource-- the children of the city of chicago. >> reporter: but in an interview earlier this month, the mayor admitted it will take more than flooding chicago with cops to stop the killing. >> there's an element to that. there's an element to people's sense of not having any sense of hope. but that doesn't dismispermit -- >> reporter: or excuse. >> and excuse any sense of that violence appropriate hadiya pendleton had a lot of hope. >> hi, my name is hadiya. >> reporter: she was opposed to gangs and even produced this video back in sixth grade. >> make it your job to say no to gangs and yes to a great teacher. >> she was a good girl who
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stayed away from every and anything that she thought could knock her off her track and she seem to be on the track to great things. >> reporter: now the mayor has asked the community for help in solving her murder, scott. and while the police have received a number of tips, they have yet to make an arrest in this case. >> pelley: dean, thank you. now, here's something we were curious about. so far this month, there have been 42 shooting deaths in chicago, but that is three times as many as in new york city. we wondered why the difference. so we asked our senior correspondent john miller, who say former deputy commissioner of the new york city police department, to join us from new orleans tonight. john, why is new york city enjoying record-low violence when the violence is so high in chicago, philadelphia, or new orleans? >> reporter: well, you look at new orleans. there's a celebration going on around here, but part of the reality is, this is one of the cities that leads the nation in murder, and the disparity, according to a police executive research forum study that brought all the police chiefs
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together was it's what happens to the arrests after they get to court. now, take new york. they have a three- to five-year mandatory minimum. that means that gun charge ends up in front of a judge, you're almost certain to go to jail for three years. in chicago, you've got a 50-50 chance you're not going to do any jail time almost. 33% of those cases are dismissed outright. >> pelley: so if you're caught with a gun in new york, whether you have used it in a crime or not, you're going to jail for three to five years, but not in chicago. >> reporter: but not in chicago and not in most cities, because they don't have those mandatory minimums, and the prosecutors and the judges exercise that discretion. the bottom line is if you're a criminal thinking do i take that gun when i leave the house today or not, the risk factor in a lot of major cities is pretty low that even if you're caught, you're going to do time in jail. >> pelley: john, thanks very much. a five-year-old boy is being held at gunpoint for a third day in a hostage standoff in midland city, alabama. a 65-year-old man with a history
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of violent run-ins with his neighbors kidnapped the boy from a school bus. those neighbors identify him as jimmy lee dykes, and police say he shot and killed the bus driver who tried to shield his students. dykes and the boy are in an underground storm shelter on dykes' rural property. the police are talking to them through a ventilation pipe. overseas tonight, iran is reportedly planning to use new sen fortunatelie centrifuges that can enrich uranium more quickly. that could enable it to build an atomic bomb sooner than had been anticipated. the white house called this another provocative step and we asked david mart turnpike look into it. >> reporter: the 3,000 new centrifuges would take up to a year to install, so iran still has not crossed the threshold to a nuclear weapon. but to david albright, who closely monitors the iranian nuclear program, this is an ominous development. >> it's iran signaling that they're going to dramatically
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increase their capability to produce enriched uranium, and it's the thing that everyone's been fearing. >> reporter: the new centrifuges, which iran apparently has been able to produce despite international sanctions, could turn out enriched uranium at three to five times the rate of its current centrifuges. once installed and in operation, the centrifuges could give iran the capability to make a dash for the bomb fast or than the u.s. and its allies could react. >> one or two weeks, they could have enough fair nuclear weapon, and that's going to be hard to both detect and respond to. >> the fact that they were trying to break out, wouldn't that still be detectable? >> but it may be detickettible after they've finished. >> reporter: he estimates iran could achieve the breakout ability by the middle of 2019. netanyahu has drawn a red line
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that drawn enron could cross as early as this year. israel's red line is based simply on the amount of uranium iran has enriched. iran's intentions remain a mystery but one thing is certain-- they keep getting better at enriching uranium. scott. >> pelley: david, thank you very much. iran will be one of the biggest challenges for chuck hagel if he is confirmed as the new secretary of defense. hagel had a rough day today at his senate confirmation hearing. the former republican senator's past statements about iran, israel, and iraq drew hostile questions, and here's wyatt andrews. >> reporter: republicans charge that in his 12 years as a senator, chuck hagel was too soft on iran and not supportive of israel. hagel was forced to retract one 2006 comment when he said the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here, meaning congress, a statement that drew questions from senator lindsey graham. >> give me an example of where we've been intimidated by the
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israeli jewish lobby to do something dumb. regarding the middle east, israel, or anywhere else. >> well, i can't give you an example. >> thank you. >> reporter: hagel still rejected the notion he was ever anti-israel. >> we have a special relationship with israel. we always have had. so i never voted in-- against israel ever in the 12 years i was in the senate. >> reporter: but the most pointed disagreement was over the 2007 troop surge in iraq. at the time, hagel called the surge of 30,000 troops the worst u.s. blunder since vietnam, a statement challenged by senator john mccain. >> were you correct in your assessment? >> well, i would defer to the judgment of history to sort that out. >> i think the committee deserves your judgment as to whether you were right or wrong about the surge? >> i'll explain why i made those comment-- >> i want to know if you were right or wrong. that's a direct question. i expect a direct answer. >> reporter: hagel explained
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he opposed the surge because it cost 1200 lives for a temporary victory. hagel, a former infantry soldier wounded twice in the vietnam war said every war decision made in washington should consider the soldier first. >> i saw the consequences and the suffering and the horror of war, so i did question a surge. i always ask the question, "is this going to be worth the sacrifice?" because there will be sacrifice. >> reporter: but that was one of the few times hagel rebutted a direct question. he avoided explaining policy positions so often, republicans complained he hadn't answered basic questions. the administration fired back, scott, saying republicans had focused on trivia. >> pelley: wyatt, thanks very much. in a moment, dr. jon lapook will take an eye-opening look at violence and mental illness and why so many don't get the treatment they need. and did she lip sync? beyonce's musical answer when the cbs evening news continues. [ male announcer ] coughequence™ #8. waking the baby.
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even so, the shooting has put a spotlight on the treatment for the mentally ill, and here's dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: four years ago, zac pogliano was a fun-loving teenager. he had plenty of friends and played in a rock band. his mother, laura, remembers when he suddenly became paranoid. >> i could come home and bang on my own door after work every day, "please let me in. it's your mom. " and finally i would crawl through my window. >> reporter: he would lock you out. >> he would lock me out and then one day horribly, literally, he opened to the door to me and i could tell by the look on his face that he did not know who i was. >> reporter: eventually, zach made a confession. >> he said, "did you know i've been hearing voices for a year? >> reporter: and what went through your head? >> well, i said, "my darling, why? why would you not tell your own mother? i would never turn away from you?" he said, "because no one wants a crazy person." >> reporter: zac's fear of telling anyone about its voices
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delayed his diagnosis. he had schizophrenia. this is zac pogliano today. he still loves music, but the disease has forced him to put his life on hold. he's been hospitalized several times. where the voices criticizing you in any way? >> yes. i can tell you that it was a man voice and a woman voice picking on me. >> reporter: schizophrenia usually strikes young adults between the ages of 16 and 30. not only can they hear voices. they may also suffer from visual hallucinations, delusions and extreme paranoia. zac can appear robotic and emotionless. those are symptoms of the disease. the medication he takes can worsen those symptoms and also cause weight gain. do you think there's a stigma attached to having mental illness? >> of course. people will judge you, and especially after someone gets assaulted by a crazy guy, i-- i
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could be that crazy guy. >> reporter: zac has never been violent. while about 95% of violence is committed by people with no serious mental illness, those with schizophrenia are two to four times more likely to commit violence than the average person. studies have shown that proper treatment significantly lowers that risk. five days a week, zac goes to an outpatient treatment program at johns hopkins bay view medical center in baltimore. >> so i will see you tomorrow. >> reporter: christa baker is his therapist. >> we need to look at zac every single day. we need to make sure he is take his medicine. that makes him think clearly. the longer we can get zac to be doing well, the better the prognosis that he has. >> reporter: do you feel you're on the right track? >> yes, very much so. >> reporter: in what way? >> i'm a 21-year-old man, and i would-- i would like to have a steady life with a job and maybe a family some day. >> reporter: what was the biggest misconception that you
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had? >> they could fix it. that if i tried hard enough... he would regain his health, and i would-- he would be exactly like he was, and that's very hard to accept. >> reporter: zac's story is a reminder that the stigma attached to mental illness makes people ashamed to admit their symptoms. until that stigma is erased there will continue to be a delay in the proper diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disease. >> pelley: it took a lot of courage for them to talk to us. doc, thanks very much. beyonce answers will the question everyone's been asking, next. they used centrum silver for the study... so i guess my wife was right. [ male announcer ] centrum. always your most complete. to the best vacation sp(all) the gulf! so i guess my wife was right.
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that our flag was still there ♪ >> reporter: when it was over. >> any questions? ( laughter ). >> reporter: she said at the inauguration she had in fact sung along to a prerecorded track. >> i did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra. it was a live television show. it was about the president and the inauguration, and i wanted to make him and my country proud. >> reporter: beyonce promises she will be singing live during her super bowl half time show. scott, she will not be singing the national anthem. >> pelley: mark, thank you. you can see the super bowl write here on cbs, and tomorrow the "cbs evening news" will come to you from new orleans in jackson square. we'll be right back. with my friends, we'll do almost anything.
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>> reporter: it's an architectural marvel, frozen in time, spanning 69 acres with 125-foot ceilings, 75-foot windows, and italian marble floors. it's been called a temple to transportation. >> the entire population of the entire state of alaska walked through here every day. >> reporter: danny brucker has been giving rather animated tours of grand central for 25 years. >> it is a palace that celebrate the everyday person walking through here. it was built for them. who isn't in love with it? >> reporter: most people don't think of a train station as a palace. >> well, first of all, it's a terminal. never say station. it's a terminal because trains terminate here. it is the most magnificent, beautiful, it's a celebration of a train transportation that established and built this nation. >> reporter: grand central terminal was built after a 1902 train crash killed 15 people and sparked want cry to move trains
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under the busy streets of new york city. that required a technological advance-- electricity. >> which is why as we look behind us, nothing but bare naked light bulbs because it was to shout out that this train system was all electric. >> reporter: by the mid-1960s, the terminals had fallen into disrepair. mid-1960s, the terminals had fallen into disrepair. the owner wanted to replace it with an office building. there was also a call to knock it down, which is what happened to the iconic pennsylvania station across town. but a famous american came to its rescue. >> i think we all realize how important it is to save these great and we'll buildings. >> it wasn't until jacqueline kennedy onassis joined that fight and that fight took years, and the supreme court establisha landmark conconservancy act that saved it. >> that 1978 ruling cemented historic landmark laws across the country.
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on his tours, brucker highlights the building's secrets-- a tennis court on the fourth floor was once the studios for cbs news. >> cbs news headquarters in new york. >> reporter: the centerpiece is in the middle of the 22,000 square foot concourse. >> every face of that clock is made out of a precious piece of solid opal, a solid jewel. it's been valued at between $10 million to $20 million. talk about a precious gift of time. there it is. >> reporter: it's part of a century-old time capsule that for commuters can transport imaginations twice a day. seth doane, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: one of the great buildings. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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a live look outside right now, today was pretty windy, but tomorrow could be a little snowy. topper shutt is in the weather center. what are we expecting around here? >> not a lot of snow, but the timing is the problem. consequently we've made tomorrow a yellow alert day. our michael and son weather cam, looking at some clouds around, temperatures in the 30s. the high was 66 occurring just after midnight. winds are out of the west, northwest at 22 and pressure falling at 29.88 inches of mercury. temperature-wise in the mid-30s in bethesda, 34 rockville, 35 reston, 38 in springfield, 35 in fairfax and 37 in college park. if you head out and factor

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